Caps Next Season

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Created by: Logicalicesports

Team: 2024-25 Washington Capitals

Initial Creation Date: Mar. 22, 2024

Published: Mar. 22, 2024

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

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Caps are stockpiling some pretty solid prospects: Chesley, Cristall, Funk, Suzdalev, Gucciardi, Gibson, Stevenson.

The area they need help going forward in the draft will be with Right Wing and Center prospects. Most so Right Wingers, Most of the guys can play either side, but it would be nice to get some natural Right Wingers to help get this team into the next era like what we did with Leonard.

Never hurts to select more defenseman though, Outside of Chesley and Iorio (Maybe Gucciardi) the prospect pool there could be improved.

Might need another winger signed in FA, I am expecting it will be tough for Oshie to stay healthy for an entire season at this point.

Free Agent Signings

RESERVE LIST	YEARS	CAP HIT
Chesley, Ryan	3	$950,000
Gucciardi, David	3	$950,000
Leonard, Ryan	3	$950,000
Lemay, Joaquim	3	$900,000
Karabela, Jake	3	$925,000
Johnson, Brent	3	$875,000

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
McMichael, Connor	3	$3,750,000
Malenstyn, Beck	2	$1,250,000
Gibson, Mitchell	2	$950,000
Frank, Ethen	2	$950,000
Sutter, Riley	1	$800,000

Trades

WSH

2026 2nd round pick (EDM)

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EDM

Jensen, Nick

Additional Details:

Either TVR or Jensen get dealt. Jensen would get a bigger return.

WSH

2024 4th round pick (LAK)

LAK

Kuemper, Darcy

Additional Details:

Kuemper needs a change of scenery. Washington is not a good spot for him

Retained Salary Transactions

Evgeny Kuznetsov: $3,900,000 (50%)

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2024
2025
2026

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

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ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
23	$87,500,000	$72,772,500	$2,252,500	$1,332,500	$14,727,500

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Ovechkin, Alex $9,500,000$9,500,000 LW M-NTC, NMC UFA - 2	McMichael, Connor $3,750,000$3,750,000 LW, C RFA	Leonard, Ryan $950,000$950,000 RW RFA
Miroshnichenko, Ivan $950,000$950,000 ($750,000$750K) LW RFA - 2	Strome, Dylan $5,000,000$5,000,000 C UFA - 4	Wilson, Tom $6,500,000$6,500,000 RW M-NTC UFA - 7
Milano, Sonny $1,900,000$1,900,000 LW, RW UFA - 2	Lapierre, Hendrix $863,333$863,333 ($445,000$445K) C RFA - 1	Protas, Aliaksei $3,375,000$3,375,000 RW, LW, C UFA - 5
Malenstyn, Beck $1,250,000$1,250,000 C, LW RFA	Dowd, Nic $1,300,000$1,300,000 C UFA - 1	Oshie, T.J. $5,750,000$5,750,000 RW M-NTC UFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Fehérváry, Martin $2,675,000$2,675,000 LD/RD RFA - 2	Carlson, John $8,000,000$8,000,000 RD M-NTC UFA - 2	Lindgren, Charlie $1,100,000$1,100,000 G UFA - 1
Sandin, Rasmus $4,600,000$4,600,000 LD UFA - 5	Iorio, Vincent $814,167$814,167 ($57,500$58K) RD RFA - 2	Stevenson, Clay $775,000$775,000 G UFA - 3
Alexeyev, Alexander $825,000$825,000 LD/RD RFA - 1	van Riemsdyk, Trevor $3,000,000$3,000,000 RD UFA - 2

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Sgarbossa, Michael $775,000$775,000 C UFA - 1		Bäckström, Nicklas $9,200,000$9,200,000 C M-NTC UFA - 1
Bear, Ethan $2,062,500$2,062,500 RD UFA - 1
Funk, Zac $905,000$905,000 ($80,000$80K) LW, RW RFA - 3

Mar. 22 at 9:29 a.m.

NoVaSpartan

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Honestly, Talbot and Rittich have both been better than Kuemper, and I don't know if a change of scenery will fix some of the core issues with Kuemper. Don't think the Kings will target Kuemper given his contract, especially when it seems they don't necessarily need a big name goalie to be successful.

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Mar. 22 at 10:08 a.m.

All_Knowing

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I expect Oshie will retire at the end of this year.

This team above would probably be the best thing for the organization in the future, but...
I think the Caps should try to compete this upcoming offseason - this is probably the last season that Ovi could get one (cap rising, young guys developing nicely, Kuzy/Backy/Oshie off the books). I'd like them to go after a top 6 winger (ex. Reinhart) and then upgrade the defense (either a true top 4 RHD or a #1 LHD). I don't see Sandin / Fehevary as a true #1 LHD and the right side needs to be reevaluated with the disappointing seasons from Carlson, Jensen, and somewhat TVR (at times).

Mar. 22 at 10:20 a.m.

tryger

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Yeah, even retaining half the Kings current goaltending tandem is cheaper and performing better. That's 3 more years on a goalie already in his mid-30s. The one thing Blake did well this season is find a cheap goalie tandem who are excelling.

Mar. 22 at 1:11 p.m.

Logicalicesports

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Quoting: tryger

That was suppose to also say placeholder

Mar. 22 at 1:12 p.m.

Nhl_oilers

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I’d give a 2nd for Jensen. No more, no less..

Mar. 22 at 1:14 p.m.

Logicalicesports

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Quoting: Nhl_oilers

I’d give a 2nd for Jensen. No more, no less..

That seems relatively fair

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